Google is gradually introducing a new method for delivering targeted ads in Chrome that aims to bypass the controversy surrounding cookies by using browsing history instead. This...
Honestly, yes you guys should move to Firefox. I pretty much stayed on Chrome until chromium Edge was a thing. I tried that and ended up using that until they bloated it to hell and back, so I am back to using Firefox. Honestly just use anything but Chrome.
I don’t mind this at all, but it’s funny that I barely if ever get ads that would make me want to buy something. I don’t even use an adblocker on my android phone and i use chrome on me laptop
… use Firefox? How are we still talking about chrome here?
Edit: yes I know many still use Chrome. That’s exactly the problem. Google does shady shit, people shrug it off because insert whatever reason. Google likes that and plans the next shady shit. Rinse, repeat.
It’s one of the major things people here on Lemmy like to talk about, I mean take a look at this comment section. Nothing but “use Firefox”, “Google bad”. While somewhat true, it’s incredibly lame and monotonous.
There are some people who may be forced to use Chrome, like for work or something. 8ts still useful information even if you believe people should not use Chrome willingly.
Hope you will enjoy a private company sharing everything about your life to the highest bidder. By the way, do you have curtains on your house’s windows? Why is that?
The only curtains in my house are in the bedrooms, and that’s just to block out light so we can sleep. My house isn’t visible to any roads or other houses though.
The machanical extraction of highly personal data (did you have sex last night?) to build faux diary entries on people (this person lives alone) so others can easly pair their tailored attacks on the psyche to those who are vunrable. Were all vulnerable, just in diffrent places. Just gotta figure yours out.
I wish these systems were built to help match people with helpful products, but the non concent bugs me intensely.
Targeted advertisements can be harmful, by directing (for example) gambling ads at people who show to be prone to addiction through the websites they visit.
Ads are fine, in some way, but I do not want random companies I’ve never heard of to know all of my details. Details which may become hacked.
Just because “I’ve got nothing to hide” doesn’t mean I should be happy when everyone knows all about me.
For this feature though they’ve tried to select the topics to be ones that “[do] not include sensitive categories (i.e. race, sexual orientation, religion, etc.)”. The list is also public and gambling is not on it:
While this won’t satisfy those who want no individualized ads or no ads at all, it would be an improvement over what we have now and put control over what topics are used (or even if it’s enabled at all) in the local browser instead of some server online.
I’d be concerned about the fact that you could live in a country where a law change could occur where suddenly the govt tells Google to keyword search people’s internet history on certain topics so they can start investigating and potentially prosecuting people.
You might not have anything to hide now but what you do that’s legal now might become illegal later, the US is a perfect example of that with all kinds of backwards BS happening there, abortion being a big example.
Isn’t this client-side solution for analyzing the history and coming up with ad topics for sites better in your scenario than the server-side solutions currently in use though? A government would have a much harder time trying to get access to the data when it’s on each individual’s device, rather than a profile created through an online ad service.
If it blocks you from opening the page if you use firefox, there is a firefox extension(agent switcher) to trick the website into thinking you are using a different OS or browser
If it doesnt work, you can use ungoogled chromium or chromium
Edit: if neither work, you can try to use the user agent switcher extension on chromium
A website should be universal and not dependent on what browser you are using. I say that but we are all suffering from Chromeitis just like Internet Exploreritis in the 2000s…
well i agree on what it should be, but that isn’t the case. i use firefox on my own time but have to use chrome to make a living. and no, the user agent isn’t the problem
Because what would be the practical difference between this “website” and Android app if Android base was available on others systems?
Both are dependent on specific runtime, both are API based, with special way to do persistant storage (usually not for user to view), both have restrictive permission system, both isolate apps from each other… The only difference is Chrome does not have centralized app store and still has compatibility with regular websites.
You can call it whatever you want, I need it for work. Also, Safari is Chromium and the site doesn’t work in Safari either. Whatever the Indian coders they contracted to make it did it in some way that only Chrome works.
But if you don’t want me to thank OP, fine. I withdraw my thanks.
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